Journal of Development Economics

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. R. Rosenzweig

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Volume 176, issue C, 2025

Using satellites and phones to evaluate and promote agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from smallholder farms in India

Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna

Therapy, mental health, and human capital accumulation among adolescent girls in Uganda

Sarah Baird, Berk Özler, Dell’Aira, Chiara, Luca Parisotto and Danish Us-Salam

Weather shocks, infant mortality, and adaptation: Experimental evidence from Uganda

Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Tillmann von Carnap, Andrea Guariso and Jakob Svensson

What one thinks, what one says and what one does: Male justifications and practices of gender-based violence in Mali

Olivia Bertelli, Thomas Calvo, Emmanuelle Lavallée, Marion Mercier and Sandrine Mesplé-Somps

Place-based Policies and Household Wealth in Africa

Matthew Amalitinga Abagna, Cecília Hornok and Alina Mulyukova

Enforcing compliance with labor regulations and firm outcomes: Evidence from Brazil

Thaline do Prado, Marcelo Santos and Bernardus Van Doornik

Peer learning and technology adoption in a digital farmer-to-farmer network

Violet Lasdun, Aurélie P. Harou, Chris Magomba and Davíd Guereña

The firm-pay gender gap and formal sector churn over the life cycle

Ihsaan Bassier and Leila Gautham

Escaping from hardship, searching for comfort: Climate matching in refugees’ destination choices

Jose Morales-Arilla, Diego Martin and Alvaro Morales

Labor market rigidity at home and multinational corporations’ flexible production reallocation abroad

JaeBin Ahn, Jaerim Choi and Sunghoon Chung

When regional policies fail: An evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones

Alexander D. Rothenberg, Yao Wang and Amalavoyal Chari

Lights, camera, school: Information provision though television during COVID-19 times

Francisco A. Gallego, Oswaldo Molina and Christopher A. Neilson

Migration and the epidemiological approach: Time and self-selection into foreign ancestries matter

Simone Bertoli, Melchior Clerc, Jordan Loper and Èric Roca Fernández

The deeper roots of human capital formation and economic development in Southeast Asia, 1900–2000

Alexandra M. de Pleijt and Ewout Frankema

Voter-buying, politician selection, and public good provision in Brazil

Ridwan Mohammad Karim

Making the most of coresident data: Credible evidence on intergenerational mobility with sibling correlation

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran, Hanchen Jiang and Forhad Shilpi

Gender composition, social context, and academic performance in high-stakes examinations

Hai Huang, Wei Huang, Xinzheng Shi and Ming-ang Zhang

Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)

Jason Garred and Song Yuan

Incentives and endorsement for technology adoption: Evidence from mobile banking in Ghana

Emma Riley, Abu S. Shonchoy and Robert Darko Osei

Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households

Jeffrey R. Bloem, Amy Damon, David C. Francis and Harrison Mitchell

Evaluating the labor supply implications of a cash transfer program: Evidence from China

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo, Mingda Cheng and Shuai Chen

Quality signaling and demand for renewable energy technology: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Aidan Coville, Joshua Graff Zivin, Arndt Reichert and Ann-Kristin Reitmann

The impact of violence on the dynamics of migration: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution

David Escamilla-Guerrero, Edward Kosack and Zachary Ward

Enforcement spillovers under different networks: The case of quotas for persons with disabilities in Brazil

Samuel Berlinski and Jessica Gagete-Miranda

The agricultural and economic impacts of massive water diversion

Guangbo Huang, Chong Liu, Tianyang Xi, Huayu Xu and Wei You

From heat to high-tech: How innovation responds to climate change

Xianling Long and Zhiqiang Wang

Housing costs and real income differences across Chinese cities

Ziyang Chen, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Sylvie Démurger and Xiuyan Liu

Mitigating the health impact of a famine: Evidence from the 1985 Ethiopian emergency food aid

Salvatore Di Falco and Kyungbo Han

How good are livestock statistics in Africa? Can nudging and direct counting improve the quality of livestock asset data?

Kibrom A. Abay, Hailemariam Ayalew, Zelalem Terfa, Joseph Karugia and Clemens Breisinger

The long-term effect of television on children's human capital development in China

Fangjing Zha and Di Zhou

High temperature, power rationing, and firm performance

Xinya Hao, Yongying Huang and Lin Zhang

Trust and development in conflict-affected countries: Introduction to a special feature

Philip Verwimp, Silke Goubin, Patricia Justino and Tilman Brück

Volume 175, issue C, 2025

Meritocracy in a bureaucracy

Shan Aman-Rana

Leader value added: Assessing the growth contribution of individual national leaders

William Easterly and Steven Pennings

Timing matters: The (very) long-run impacts of cash grants during a crisis

Nathan Fiala, Julian Rose, Filder Aryemo and Jörg Ankel-Peters

The impact of COVID-19 on formal firms: Lessons from administrative tax data

Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Pablo Garriga and Camille Semelet

How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?

Yutong Chen, Gaurav Chiplunkar, Sheetal Sekhri, Anirban Sen and Aaditeshwar Seth

Climate change response: Input adjustment in agriculture

Sebastián Figari

The impact of digital technology on worker tasks: Do labor policies matter?

Rita K. Almeida, Carlos H.L. Corseuil and Jennifer P. Poole

Who benefits from job training programs? Evidence from a high-dosage program in Brazil

Daniel Da Mata, Rodrigo Oliveira and Diana Silva

Estimating impact with surveys versus digital traces: Evidence from randomized cash transfers in Togo

Emily Aiken, Suzanne Bellue, Joshua E. Blumenstock, Dean Karlan and Christopher Udry

Understanding the effects of group composition by risk for violence. Experimental evidence from El Salvador

Lelys Dinarte-Diaz

Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

Julie Bousquet, Anna Gasten, Mark Marvin Kadigo, Jean-François Maystadt and Colette Salemi

Missing repayments on haze days: Evidence from China

Jianwen Li, Keyang Li and Yuan Ren

Compliance and accountability-seeking: Evidence from a field experiment in Argentina

Krzysztof Krakowski and Lucas Ronconi

On the effects of wildfires on poverty in Bolivia

Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza, Alejandro Puerta-Cuartas and Andrey Ramos

The role of market frictions in demand for prepaid electricity

Megan Lang

Dismantling a market for stolen goods: Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil

Andre Mancha

Too much of a good thing: Accelerated growth and crime

Rodrigo Soares and Danilo Souza

Do index insurance programs live up to their promises? Aggregating evidence from multiple experiments

Pauline Castaing and Jules Gazeaud